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ENGL4125: Sentiment and Sensation
2024 unit information
This unit will focus on the narrative and rhetorical strategies used to depict and engage emotion. It will examine the ways in which feeling is both conceptualised and motivated in literary texts, and relate developments in the fictional understanding of emotion to those in philosophy and the natural sciences. It will ask whether emotion can be historicised; how affective responses are engaged in the service of ethical agendas; to what extent do the feelings produced by fiction elude narrative control.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
| Code | ENGL4125 |
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| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Increase students’ textual literacy and their knowledge of literary history by introduction to a range of eighteenth and nineteenth century texts
- LO2. Introduce students to the field of affect and emotion studies
- LO3. Develop an understanding of the concept of genre as a mode of classification, contextualisation, and critique
- LO4. Consider how the texts and genres studied represent (or fail to represent) diversity
- LO5. Improve students’ reading skills through close analysis of literary texts
- LO6. Cultivate skills in writing – particularly in the construction of a sustained and detailed argument – through the long-fDevelop oral abilities by allowing students to lead one of the seminar discussions, and through the conference presentation optionorm essay option
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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